Prize winners at the Third Joint Conference of BHIVA with BASHH, Liverpool 2014

As has become customary at BHIVA and BASHH conferences, outstanding quality research was reflected in the oral and poster presentations. Of the 526 abstracts submitted, 492 were selected - 45 as oral presentations and 447 as poster presentations. This was the highest number of both submitted and accepted abstracts at a BHIVA or BASHH conference.

The AbbVie Travelling Scholarships in collaboration with BHIVA and St Stephen's AIDS Trust

AbbVie, in collaboration with the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the St Stephen's AIDS Trust (SSAT), have set up an exchange scholarship for practising HIV doctors, under 35 years of age from developing and transition countries, to travel to the UK for training purposes. The objective was to increase their understanding of the treatment and management of HIV in the UK and to disseminate this information and experience when they return to their country of origin.

In exchange, scholars from the UK (SpR or StR grade) travelled to the home country of a winning overseas applicant in order to take part in a placement at an HIV centre or hospital.

MSD have provided a grant to support travel scholarships for 8 UK-based consultants and non-consultant healthcare professionals (including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and non-clinical researchers) who are working in the field of HIV medicine. This enabled the winning applicants to travel to the recent CROI Conference in Boston, USA, in March 2014, and each award contributed towards the winner's registration fee, travel costs and accommodation expenses. The winners of the award this year were as follows:

Dr Olubanke Davies, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Gillian Fraser, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow

Dr Anna Garner, Rotherham General Hospital

Ms Siobhan Lynch, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

Dr Kaveh Manavi, University Hospitals Birmingham

Mr Neal Marshall, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nashaba Matin, Barts Health - Royal London Hospital

Dr Emma Wainwright, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

Mediscript Awards in collaboration with BHIVA/BASHH

Owing to its long association with BHIVA and BASHH, Mediscript has provided this annual award for the two best oral or poster research presentations during the conference in the fields of social sciences and community-based work. A further annual award is also to be given to the authors of the best paper published in HIV Medicine.

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best Clinico-pathological case presentation at conference.

Winner:'Third Trimester Conundrum'

Dr Subathira Dakshina, Barts Health NHS Trust, London

The BHIVA / BASHH Maggie Godley Memorial Prize

This prize is awarded for the best oral or poster research presentation during the conference presented by a doctor of consultant status who works in a district general non-teaching hospital, in the UK.

Winner:

O34: 'Feasibility and acceptability of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination programme (HPV4) for young men who have sex with men (MSM) within a comprehensive sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and sexual health engagement strategy: Results from the first year'

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best poster research presentation during the conference. All poster research presentations were judged by a BHIVA-appointed poster research judging panel, and to be eligible for this prize the presenter had to be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winner:

P88: 'A qualitative survey of attitudes towards HIV among providers of community care'

High-risk drug practices associated with Shigella flexneri serotype 3a infections amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) in England View presentation

Ms Victoria Gilbart

Public Health England

The BHIVA Margaret Johnson / BASHH Best Oral Presentation Award

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best oral research presentation during the conference. All oral research presentations were judged by a BHIVA-appointed oral research judging panel, and to be eligible for this prize the presenter had to be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).